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Old Billy

Old Billy (Alter Billy) war das älteste Pferd, das je gelebt hat, und dies ist sein Schädel – er wurde 62 Jahre alt! Er wurde 1760 geboren und arbeitete für die Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company in Warrington, wo er Lastkähne über den Fluss zog und Waren aus Booten hob.

Nachdem er viele Jahre lang gearbeitet hatte, lebte er auf Feldern am Ufer des Mersey, wo er im Alter eine lokale Berühmtheit war. Sein Bild wurde 1822, nur wenige Monate vor seinem Tod, von dem Künstler Charles Towne gemalt, und 2023, 200 Jahre nach seinem Tod, wurde ein Bildband über ihn veröffentlicht.

Anhand der Vorderzähne lässt sich das Alter eines Pferdes bestimmen, und je mehr sie an einem Hang aufeinandertreffen, desto älter ist das Pferd wahrscheinlich.

Können Sie uns etwas über den ältesten Menschen, das älteste Tier oder den ältesten Baum erzählen, den Sie kennen?

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    Federica Sebastiano

    The oldest tree in Europe is a 1,235-year-old oricate pine (Pinus heldreichii).
    This majestic tree is located in Calabria, a region in southern Italy, and measures more than 10 meters in height and 160 centimetres in diameter.

    This tree was named Italus after the legendary king of the Oenotrians, an ancient civilisation of Italic origin who originally inhabited Calabria.
    In his Fabularum Liber, Gaius Julius Hyginus recorded the myth that Italus was a son of Penelope and Telegonus (a son of Odysseus).
    Moreover, According to Aristotle in his Politics, Italy owes its name to this legendary king.

    Carmelo Pizzuti, an official of the national park where the Italus tree is located reports that:
    “When the ancient Greeks arrived on our shores, they knew that there was already an Enotrian people, their king was Italus. We can say that, in a sense, Calabria was the first Italy, and on this basis, we chose the name for the oldest tree in the park.”

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